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Daily Dose of Math - What's Special About This Number? (Part I)

0 (Zero) is the additive identity.
1 (One) is the multiplicative identity.
2 (Two) is the only even prime.
3 (Three) is the number of spatial dimensions we live in.
4 (Four) is the smallest number of colors sufficient to color all planar maps.
5 (Five) is the number of Platonic solids.
6 (Six) is the smallest perfect number.
7 (Seven) is the smallest number of sides of a regular polygon that is not constructible by straightedge and compass.
8 (Eight) is the largest cube in the Fibonacci sequence.
9 (Nine) is the maximum number of cubes that are needed to sum to any positive integer.
10 (Ten) is the base of our number system.

(via princecortex)

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Is the universe really “written in mathematical language,” as Galileo contended? I am inclined to think instead that this is the ony language with which we can try to read it.

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raccoonswithlightsabers:

earlgreybloke:

gradualunderstanding:

There it is. The sum of my knowledge, mostly, all on a single image. There’s probably quite a few things I left out, just because I didn’t think of them at the time, but still.

I do not yet know all of this, a fair old chunk. But still it’s reeaaally pweettty.

SO COOL. One day, I shall have learnt this, and all will be well.

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Math for Love: What faith is required in mathematics

Imagine I took a small handful of pennies and showed them to you clumped together, then spread the same collection out into a wider array; you know, without having to think about it, that the pennies are worth the same amount either way. It’s the same group of pennies, after all. To children, this…

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